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June 16, 2009
Dror Futter, General Counsel and Partner, New Venture Partners
Conrad Everhard, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
Marriott Hanover, 1401 Rt. 10 East, Whippany, NJ Phone: 973-538-8811
https://www.marriott.com/hotels/maps/travel/ewrho-hanover-marriott/
Registration 11:30; Luncheon 12:00 noon – 2:00 PM
Entrepreneur vs. the Investor the battle of the deal negotiation
See VC and lawyer for company go at it over deal terms
Join us to witness a live VC term sheet negotiation between two leading venture capital
practitioners. Dror Futter, the general counsel of New Venture Partners, a leading venture
capital fund, will represent the fund’s interests and Conrad Everhard of the global law firm of
Greenberg Traurig will represent the company side. Watch as they surface the points of
principal tension in a venture capital negotiation and offer constructive solutions. The
negotiation will be accompanied by running commentary to give the audience background and
context on the principal terms. This is a unique opportunity to learn by watching two leading
venture capital lawyers practicing their craft!
Dror Futter is General Counsel and a partner of New Venture Partners LLC, a New Jersey-based venture
capital firm specializing in venture backed corporate spinouts.
Dror Futter was a founder of New Venture Partners and has been a member of the core team since 2000. He
supports all fund investments through their life-cycle, is responsible for negotiating partnership agreements
with corporate partners, as well as the asset transfer, intellectual property and commercial agreements that
form the core of each corporate spin-out. He serves as the co-chair of Practicing Law Institute’s VC Law
seminar and is active in the National Venture Capital Association Model Document Working Group and the
Association of Corporate Counsel.
Dror holds an AB magna cum laude, in Political Economics from Princeton University and a JD from the
Columbia University School of Law. He lives with his wife and three sons in Teaneck, NJ.
Conrad Everhard is a shareholder in the Corporate & Securities department of Greenberg Traurig’s New
York office. Conrad advises high growth companies, venture capital funds and private equity funds at every
stage of the investment lifecycle, with a particular focus on entrepreneurial driven companies and funds in the
technology, pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors. Conrad's practice includes venture capital and private
equity transactions, restructurings, start-up formation, strategic planning, public offerings, executive
compensation, governance matters, and all forms of M&A and liquidity transactions.
In the M&A and private equity sectors, Conrad brings over twenty years of experience counseling buyers and
sellers in executing, structuring and negotiating complex buy-out, spin-off and exit transactions in many
industries, including software, telecom, voice recognition, drug discovery, biotech, automotive parts, paper
packaging, textile and hardware. He is a frequent speaker on M&A related topics.
In the new economy sectors, Conrad draws on a vast network of funding and entrepreneurial resources to
assist technology driven companies and the investors that fund them in implementing and executing
fundraising, commercialization and liquidity strategies. Conrad is active in every high growth sector, including
cleantech, Web 2.0, e-commerce and internet, new media, pharma and biotech.
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